| A | B |
|---|
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; members have democratic government (US) |
| Warsaw Pact | an alliance formed by the Soviet Union that included Communist governments |
| SEATO | Southeast Asia Treaty Organization; organization that opposed communism |
| EEC | European Economic Community; provided a common bank and common currency |
| Free Trade | set up by the EEC, where members agreed not to place tariff on imported goods by member nations |
| CENTO | Central Treaty Organization; designed to stop communism in the Middle East |
| Hot Spot | an area witha lot of tension in which fighting could break out at any time |
| Iron Curtain | the term for an invisible political line that divided Europe in the 1950s |
| de-Stalinization | when Khrushchev took over the Soviet Union and reduced terror and freed many political prisoners |
| Space Race | a competition between the US and the Soviet Union that began after WWII for outer space supremacy |
